Former MOSSAD psychologist reveals the untold stories of captivity | The Erin Molan Show
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Glenn Cohen was the man Israel trusted to meet and debrief returning hostages as they crossed the border after Hamas captivity.
A former Mossad officer and chief operational psychologist, hostage negotiator and Israeli Air Force pilot, Glenn helped develop the protocol used to receive returning hostages while balancing two urgent priorities: protecting people who had just survived unimaginable trauma and gathering life-saving intelligence about those still held in Gaza.
In this extraordinary conversation with Erin Molan, Glenn reveals what surprised him most about the hostages, how children and elderly civilians instinctively used techniques taught to elite commandos, and why surviving trauma does not necessarily mean being broken for life.
Glenn also shares his own remarkable story — losing his father as a child, becoming emotionally shut down, joining the Israeli Air Force against the odds, serving in the Mossad, becoming a clinical psychologist and discovering that hardship can produce not only resilience, but profound personal growth.
This is a powerful conversation about the Israeli hostages, October 7, Hamas captivity, PTSD, post-traumatic growth, human resilience and what people are truly capable of when pushed beyond their limits.
A former Mossad officer and chief operational psychologist, hostage negotiator and Israeli Air Force pilot, Glenn helped develop the protocol used to receive returning hostages while balancing two urgent priorities: protecting people who had just survived unimaginable trauma and gathering life-saving intelligence about those still held in Gaza.
In this extraordinary conversation with Erin Molan, Glenn reveals what surprised him most about the hostages, how children and elderly civilians instinctively used techniques taught to elite commandos, and why surviving trauma does not necessarily mean being broken for life.
Glenn also shares his own remarkable story — losing his father as a child, becoming emotionally shut down, joining the Israeli Air Force against the odds, serving in the Mossad, becoming a clinical psychologist and discovering that hardship can produce not only resilience, but profound personal growth.
This is a powerful conversation about the Israeli hostages, October 7, Hamas captivity, PTSD, post-traumatic growth, human resilience and what people are truly capable of when pushed beyond their limits.
